At seventeen\, Lenora Hope
Hung her s
ister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant\, the Hope fam ily murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most p eople assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible\, the police were n ever able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings\, she has never spoken publicly about that night\, nor has she set foot outside Hope &rsquo\;s End\, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
\nStabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother&rsquo\;s happy life<
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It&rsquo\;s now 1983\, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope&rsquo\;s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelc hair\, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only commun icate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night\, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer&mdash\;I want to tell you every thing.
\n&ldquo\;It wasn&rsquo\;t me\,&rdquo\; Lenora said
But
she&rsquo\;s the only one not dead
As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre\, it becomes clear there&r squo\;s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor&rsquo\;s departure come to light\, Kit starts to suspect Lenor a might not be telling the complete truth&mdash\;and that the seemingly ha rmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first though t.
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